| New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
| 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced! | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. |
| 3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed. | 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. |
| 4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive. | 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. |
| 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest. | 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. |
| 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive. | 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. |
| 7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved! | 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. |
| 8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. | 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. |
| 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. | 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. |
| 10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. | 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. |
| 11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah. | 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
| 12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt. | 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. |
| 13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. | 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. |
| 14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing. | 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. |
| 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. |
| 16The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned. | 16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! |
| 17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears. | 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: |
| 18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals. | 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. |
| 19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation. | 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long? | 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? |
| 21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had! | 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, |
| 22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still? | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. |
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